Les plus excellents bastiments de France

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architectural resource

Du Cerceau’s best and most noted publication,
Les plus excellents bastiments de France, 2 vol. (1576 and 1579; “The Finest Buildings of France”), is an outstanding resource for many 16th-century houses that since have been altered or destroyed. Among his other published works are
Arcs (1549; “Arches”),
Temples (1550),
Vues d’optique...

...part of the Château d’Ecouen (about 1555) and the chatelet (about 1560) at the Château de Chantilly. The architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau the Elder prepared
Les plus excellents bastiments de France (1576–79), a two-volume set of engravings that depict the new Renaissance 16th-century buildings of France, many of which have been destroyed or...